How To Install neofetch on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install neofetch
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is neofetch
Neofetch displays information about your system next to an image, your OS logo, or any ASCII file of your choice. The main purpose of Neofetch is to be used in screenshots to show other users what OS/distribution you’re running, what theme/icons you’re using and more.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install neofetch
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install neofetch.
Install neofetch on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install neofetch
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install neofetch
Install neofetch on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install neofetch
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install neofetch
How To Uninstall neofetch on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the neofetch
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove neofetch
neofetch Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/neofetch
/usr/share/doc/neofetch
/usr/share/doc/neofetch/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/neofetch
/usr/share/licenses/neofetch/LICENSE.md
/usr/share/man/man1/neofetch.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install neofetch
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.